Letters Quote by Sylvia Plath Download Open image “But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.” — Sylvia Plath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Letters Poetry Writing Writing poems
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Dear Beloved woman, Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me. And yet I remember it as… — Talon P.S Copy Share Image
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image